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US airstrikes target Iran-backed militias in Syria, Iraq

The US military, under the direction of President Biden, conducted airstrikes Sunday against what it said were “facilities used by Iran-backed militia groups” near the border between Iraq and Syria.

Trump Organization attorneys given Monday deadline to persuade prosecutors not to file charges against it

Prosecutors in New York have given former president Donald Trump’s attorneys a deadline of Monday afternoon to make any final arguments as to why the Trump Organization should not face criminal charges over its financial dealings, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Karen Webb had been looking to make a job change when the pandemic hit and took a new job in April.
‘A giant game of musical chairs’: Waves of workers are changing jobs as pandemic wanes
The job market in Greater Boston is seething with activity. Many employees are burned out. Others have suffered personal losses or are simply looking to do something new. Whatever the reasons, the amount of voluntary churn in the job market is at a 21st-century high.

House introduces bill to compel Harvard to divest of fossil fuels

A bill, introduced to the House last week, would compel Harvard University to divest from fossil fuels through a sparingly used article in the Massachusetts Constitution.
PETER ABRAHAM | RED SOX 9, YANKEES 2

After another hot weekend against Yankees, Red Sox prove there could be a fun summer ahead

By hammering New York ace Gerrit Cole, Boston completed another sweep of its rival from New York and made a strong statement for the rest of the season.
First off, a day of highlights for Red Sox batters against Yankees’ Gerrit Cole
The Soldiers' Home in Holyoke where 76 veterans died due to coronavirus or COVID-19.
Spotlight follow-up

Holyoke Soldiers’ Home COVID-19 probe raises questions about independence

A Boston Globe Spotlight Team review of Governor Baker’s arrangement with former prosecutor Mark Pearlstein to investigate what happened at the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home raises troubling new questions about whether the investigation was truly independent.
Five top takeaways from the Spotlight Team’s reporting on the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home Read the Spotlight Team’s investigation into the tragedy and the role officials played
A rendering shows the planned building at 11 Dartmouth Street in Malden.

Region’s lab space boom continues as high-rise moves forward in Malden

Another life science project moves forward in downtown Malden.
Camp Tecumseh settled out of court with Will Addis, who sued the camp last fall, alleging abuse by an ex-counselor.

Behind the motto of ‘make good boys better,’ a darker side of New Hampshire’s Camp Tecumseh

One former camper, who said he was molested during the early 2000s, said life at Tecumseh required navigating a maze of demeaning and embarrassing practices.
Mass. coronavirus at a glance |
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Keyanna Robinson, 16, of Boston, speaks with Alexandra Buyuk, a Cataldo Ambulance EMT on the train before getting the COVID shot earlier this month on the state's Vax Express train.
Mass. reports 36,410 new COVID-19 vaccinations Sunday, 31 confirmed cases, one death
The number of people fully vaccinated — with either two shots of the Moderna or Pfizer vaccines or one shot of the Johnson & Johnson — rose to 4,184,359.

President Biden gestured as he walked on the South Lawn of the White House after stepping off Marine One on Sunday in Washington.
Infrastructure deal is back on track after Biden’s assurances
A fragile bipartisan infrastructure deal appeared to be moving forward once again Sunday, as moderate Republicans said they had been reassured that President Biden would not hold it hostage while Democrats simultaneously work on a larger, partisan economic package.

THE FINE PRINT
You paid down your credit card balances during the pandemic. Now what?
What’s not to love about credit cards? Shockingly high costs, for one, if you carry a balance. Here are some things to think about as you contemplate a post-pandemic relationship with your credit cards.

On Wednesday nights, Arlene Cribbs watches her 3-year-old grandson Aaron Gillenwater. She rents a two-bedroom apartment in Jamaica Plain and has been trying to buy a two- or three-bedroom single-family house.
Massachusetts is pushing home ownership in an effort to battle its enormous racial wealth gap
Massachusetts is undertaking a massive shift in how it distributes money for affordable housing, pumping tens of millions of state dollars into building new owner-occupied homes after years of focusing almost exclusively on rentals.

love letters

My wife’s father and I hate each other

Help: My wife's father "texts her four to five times every day."

Sharks spotted Sunday off Orleans Beach, Chatham

A white shark was spotted off Race Point Beach in Provincetown on Saturday after two other sightings in Truro last week.

Opinion

Fans raise their glasses together at Kilroy’s Bar and Grill in Indianapolis during the first round of NCAA March Madness, March 19. College athletes see few of the profits of lucrative college sports.
EDITORIAL

NCAA must act now to allow pay and protection for college players

The Supreme Court decision is forcing the association’s hand in reforms that are long overdue.
Las Vegas Raiders defensive lineman Carl Nassib, who announced via Instagram recently that he is gay.
RENÉE GRAHAM

For the LGBTQ community, representation will always matter
A sticker spotted by the author on a bike path near her home.
IDEAS | BROOKE HAUSER

The stranger who’s reading my mind
ESL Teacher Ramon Trinidad tosses a jolly rancher to one of his students after he gave a correct answer as Juan Terrero looks on at Brighton High School in May 2019.
EDITORIAL

Where is Boston’s vision for the new teachers’ contract?
Taylor Swift performing at Gillette Stadium on Saturday, June 25, 2011, before the rain.
IDEAS | RYAN DAVIS

Taylor Swift’s miracle in the rain and the mystery of shared experience

THE GREAT DIVIDE ⟶

See the latest from our education team focused on race, class, and opportunity in schools.

RHODE ISLAND ⟶

See the latest from Globe Rhode Island.

NEWTON ⟶

See the Globe’s expanded Newton coverage in partnership with Boston University.

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MATTHEW GILBERT

The 10 best TV shows of 2021 (so far)

From “Beartown” to “Easttown,” it’s been a heckuva half-year. Here are 10 top shows to consider.

A collection of Bitcoin tokens.
To counter bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, momentum grows for the US dollar to go digital
An official digital version of the dollar minted not in the Treasury but solely online would be the biggest change to US currency in a century.

Colleen Francke cut off fresh kelp from a rope as it is fed onto her boat from the sea farm below in Falmouth, Maine. Francke's husband, Brent Nappi, cleaned the rope as it works its way toward him.
From Maine’s warming waters, kelp emerges as a potentially lucrative cash crop
With warming oceans threatening lobstering, kelp farming could become a major industry. Kelp, a seaweed more often thought of as a nuisance by fishermen, is being hailed for its many uses as a miracle food to an ingredient in bioplastics to a revolutionary way to feed beef cattle.

The Boston skyline gleams in the light of the setting sun.
Following catastrophic collapse in Florida, Boston building officials outline city safety measures
Most high-rise buildings in Boston are required to undergo a checkup every five years to assess the structural integrity of their exterior walls, said Sean Lydon, interim commissioner of the city’s inspectional services department.

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EDITORIAL

Editorial: Future-proofing the presidency

Donald Trump brought our democracy to the brink and exposed its weak spots. Here’s how to thwart the next American tyrant.
Jeneé Osterheldt

A Beautiful Resistance: Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt

Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt.

‘On the Street’: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting

Blind Spot

An 11-month Globe investigation found that people nationwide are dying in crashes caused by drivers who should have had their licenses suspended. One in 10 US drivers has at least one offense — from speeding to vehicular homicide — that isn’t reflected on their driving record.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

An embrace in front of Cubbyhole, a lesbian bar in the West Village of New York, during a reopening event on April 8, 2021.
IDEAS | LISA MENICHINO

Where have all the lesbian bars gone?
Powerball tickets on sale in Harvard Square in 2016.
JEFF JACOBY

Online lottery games would be a bad bet
Clyde Lewis, of Roxbury, receives his first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at the Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center vaccine clinic on April 20. Communities of color — especially Black Americans — bore the brunt of the COVID-19 crisis.
Michelle A. Williams

Juneteenth can jumpstart recognition of America’s racial health disparities
Rachelle G. Cohen

Tax holiday prompts pearl-clutching from lawmakers
MARCELA GARCÍA

The problem with sales tax holidays
Taylor Swift performing at Gillette Stadium on Saturday, June 25, 2011, before the rain.
IDEAS | RYAN DAVIS

Taylor Swift’s miracle in the rain and the mystery of shared experience

Metro

RI EDUCATION

Course about race and law to be mandatory at Roger Williams University School of Law

Amid a national debate about race-related curriculum, the law school will launch “Race & the Foundations of American Law” in the fall.

Winthrop shootings investigated as hate crime; shooter ‘executed’ people of color, according to the district attorney

The shooting deaths of an Air Force veteran and a retired State Police trooper in Winthrop Saturday are being investigated as hate crimes, after officials found troubling antisemitic and racist statements against Black people written by their accused killer, according to Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins.

COVID-19 cases drop to new low as vaccinations continue to climb

The state reported 31 new confirmed coronavirus cases Sunday, the lowest number since March 2020, as infections, hospitalizations, and deaths continue to drop amid rising vaccination rates.

Paralyzed by illness, Anthony Weller, 63, wrote sonnets a letter at a time

Mr. Weller had played guitar with jazz legend Herb Pomeroy and penned travel writing from around the world.

Sports

Milwaukee's Khris Middleton (22) was locked in during Game 3, scoring 38 points in the win in Atlanta.
Bucks 113, Hawks 102

Khris Middleton’s 38 points power Bucks past Hawks for 2-1 series lead

Trae Young scored 35 points for Atlanta but was slowed in the final period after injuring his right ankle after stepping on an official’s foot.
With 15 seniors on the roster, the BC High lacrosse team is headed back to the Division 1 state final against St. John's Prep.

BC High topples unbeaten Franklin to win Div. 1 South lacrosse title

The sixth-seeded Eagles (14-3) got goals from eight different scorers to defeat the top-seeded Panthers (18-1).
Harris English buries a 16-foot birdie on No. 18 to punctuate his epic sudden-death playoff victory at The Travelers Championship in Cromwell, Conn.
Golf | Travelers Championship

Harris English outlasts Kramer Hickok in eight-hole playoff at Travelers, tying second-longest in PGA history

English ended it with a birdie on the eighth sudden-death playoff hole.
MIAA Girls' lacrosse tournament

Unbeaten Westwood girls’ lacrosse overcomes Notre Dame-Hingham, takes D1 South title

Nelly Korda earns first major title and No. 1 world ranking

Sports Log

Major League Soccer investigating verbal abuse charges

Business

Region’s lab space boom continues as high-rise moves forward in Malden

Another life science project moves forward in downtown Malden.

‘A giant game of musical chairs’: Waves of workers are changing jobs as pandemic wanes

The job market in Greater Boston is seething with activity. Many employees are burned out. Others have suffered personal losses or are simply looking to do something new. Whatever the reasons, the amount of voluntary churn in the job market is at a 21st-century high.

Boston’s Circle drives the next big thing in digital money — stablecoin
THE FINE PRINT

You paid down your credit card balances during the pandemic. Now what?

Comfort Zone

From left: Steve Carell, John Krasinski, and Rainn Wilson in "The Office."
ASK MATTHEW

Why we’re still in a relationship with some classic sitcoms
Tory Burch room at Hancock Shaker Village
MURRAY WHYTE

In the Berkshires, all-star creatives summon the Shakers
The author-illustrator, photographed at his home, just inked a deal to adapt his "¡Vamos!" series for the small screen.
BOOKS

Raúl The Third brings border culture to life in books for kids
Larry Pierce, left, and Paul Goodnight kicked off the project with a temporary mural called "No Strings Detached."

‘Mentoring Murals’ shows off generations of Black artistic talent

STAT

Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 Transmission electron micrograph of a SARS-CoV-2 virus particle (UK B.1.1.7 variant), isolated from a patient sample and cultivated in cell culture. Image captured at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Credit: NIAID
We know a lot about Covid-19. Experts have many more questions
More than two dozen virologists, epidemiologists, and others responded to STAT's question about what they still most wanted to know.

Boston, MA -- 03/16/21 -- The cover of the summary report of the review hearing for Jospeh Messere, is seen on March 16, 2021, provided by his attorney David Apfel.(Kayana Szymczak for STAT)
Cement Head’s last fight: He was denied parole six times — until he was about to become a Covid-19 statistic
In lawyers' view, the Department of Correction was trying to make it seem like it had fewer Covid-19 deaths on its hands than it really did.

JAMA illo
Troubling podcast puts JAMA, the ‘voice of medicine,’ under fire for its mishandling of race
Critics say editors have asked authors to scrub the term racism from their articles even as they publish others that include racist notions.

SCT illo
Despite resistance, researchers investigate the possibility of a new mental health disorder
Many researchers say the study of sluggish cognitive tempo, which is still in its early stages, can’t yet support a formal diagnosis.

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Alison created a melamine plate wall with pieces she found online at Ballard Designs; The Enchanted Home; Pomegranate; Replacements, Ltd.; and WebstaurantStore.
Summer Living

Small plunge pool + plastic privacy hedge = instant backyard oasis
Perspective

Anger lessons from my kids: ‘I’m mad because I am sad! Duh!’
Miss Conduct

When to tip, and why tipping isn’t charity
Korean spicy chilled noodles (bibim guksu).
Cooking

Recipes: 3 cold noodle salads that help beat the heat

metro

Anthony Weller, outside his one-room cabin where he wrote in the Annisquam section of Gloucester.

Paralyzed by illness, Anthony Weller, 63, wrote sonnets a letter at a time

House introduces bill to compel Harvard to divest of fossil fuels

Heat emergency to begin Monday, when temperatures could reach 96 degrees

sports

Westwood celebrates its first Division 1 South sectional championship since 2016.

Unbeaten Westwood girls’ lacrosse overcomes Notre Dame-Hingham, takes D1 South title

Nelly Korda earns first major title and No. 1 world ranking

Major League Soccer investigating verbal abuse charges

business

You paid down your credit card balances during the pandemic. Now what?

Infrastructure vow was not intended to be veto threat, Biden says

From Maine’s warming waters, kelp emerges as a potentially lucrative cash crop

politics

President Biden gestured as he walked on the South Lawn of the White House after stepping off Marine One on Sunday in Washington.

Infrastructure deal is back on track after Biden’s assurances

US airstrikes target Iran-backed militias in Syria, Iraq

Transgender rights, religion among cases justices could add

Nation

Megan Thee Stallion performed at the BET Awards on Sunday at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.

Cardi B, Queen Latifah, Lil Nas X shine at BET Awards

Rescuers stay hopeful about finding more survivors at site of Florida condo collapse

Remembering the dead and missing in Florida condo collapse

World

People climbing Mount Everest in late May.

Dozens came down with COVID-19 on Everest. Nepal says it never happened

1+1=4? Latin America confronts a pandemic education crisis

With discovery of unmarked graves, Canada’s Indigenous seek reckoning

opinion

The problem with sales tax holidays

Progress in Congress, sorta

Why Massachusetts is in a bind on emissions goals

lifestyle

Ashley Xu, 16, said winning a gold medal, the highest honor from the annual Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, was a "surreal" experience.

Brookline teen takes home top prize in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards

My wife’s father and I hate each other

I don’t want to be forced through the turkey dump

food & dining

The Middle East nightclub and restaurant will reopen Friday for the beloved venue's first show in over a year.

The Middle East restaurant and nightclub in Central Square to begin reopening Friday

Cloud & Spirits opens in Cambridge; Contessa rises in Back Bay

At The Pearl, South Bay comes out of its shell

travel

A guest room at Blind Tiger.

The secret is out about Blind Tiger in Portland

The guiding light of poetry and place

The new Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine opens

Arts

Tory Burch room at Hancock Shaker Village

In the Berkshires, all-star creatives summon the Shakers

In Uphams Corner, artists push back against the sale of their workspace

Artists keep pushing beyond the gender binary

Books

The author-illustrator, photographed at his home, just inked a deal to adapt his "¡Vamos!" series for the small screen.

Raúl The Third brings border culture to life in books for kids

50 years after the Pentagon Papers, does a free press still function?

Looking forward to a ‘hot Freud summer’

Movies

Liam Neeson behind the wheel in "The Ice Road."

‘The Ice Road,’ on Netflix, puts Liam Neeson behind the wheel

Questlove’s quest to make ‘Summer of Soul’

Doc Talk: literary lions, terrifying television, a change of habit

Television

Amy Schumer, pictured with husband Chris Fischer in 2019, will try to learn a new skill, craft, or trade from a local expert in her husband’s hometown on Martha's Vineyard over the eight episodes of "Amy Learns To…"

Watch Amy Schumer pursue some Martha’s Vineyard vocations

The 10 best TV shows of 2021 (so far)

There’s plenty to like about the Peabody Awards

music

Panos A. Panay, a Berklee alum and vice president, was tapped Tuesday to helm the Recording Academy alongside Valeisha Butterfield Jones.

Berklee vice president Panos Panay tapped as Recording Academy co-president

Amplifying refugees and their musical talents

Elton John to bring farewell tour to Gillette Stadium in 2022

Theater/Dance

Christopher Lloyd will star in the title role in "King Lear" at Shakespeare & Company.

Christopher Lloyd’s journey, from kooks to King Lear

Barrington Stage’s ‘Chester Bailey’ glows in the dark

Dispatches from a pandemic in SpeakEasy’s ‘Project Resilience’

globe local

Yuzi Shrestha, Ritu Niroula, and Audrey Recupero (left to right) run on the Northern Strand Trail near Malden's Linden Square.

‘I can do everything using the bike path’: Trail links cities north of Boston to the sea

Should school lunches be free for all children in Massachusetts public schools?

After 16 months behind bars, we’re finally getting to live again

Obituaries

Anthony Weller, outside his one-room cabin where he wrote in the Annisquam section of Gloucester.

Paralyzed by illness, Anthony Weller, 63, wrote sonnets a letter at a time

Jeanne Lamon, who led an early-music ensemble, dies at 71

Ian Menzies, former Globe columnist and managing editor, dies at 101